The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03

THE Taqblatt, of Vienna, has received a
telegram from Odessa stating that the Gar
has returned to st. Petersburg from the
Don CossacBs country three days earlier
than he had intended TO. This was due,
the dispatch says, to an attempt made by
student to kill him during the festivities at
Novo-Tcherkask, by firing at him as be rode
by in a carriage.
THE Cambridge (EngIand) University
crew have agreed to row the Harvard Col
lege crew if the necessary funds to cover
the expenses Of the trip to America can be
raised.
CANON FLEMING, of England, accused OF
plagiarism by the Pal Mall Gazette, writes
thai paper that the use of part of SER
mon delivered by DR.. Talmage, of Brook
lvn, in a volume of sermons published by
the Canon was an act OF inadvertence on
his part.
THE Belgian ironworkers affiliated with
the Knights of Labor have joined the
strikers. Riots have occurred in various
districts. The mobs displayed black and
red flags. A plot has been discovered to
attack and pillage Charleroi. 1t is rumOred
that the strikers used dynamite at Haine,
st. Pierre and Paturages.
THE Berlin Court of Appeals has con
hrmed the sentence of four weeks impris-
onment imposed on the journalists Zornow
that the Car had killed Lieutenant Vii
laume.
FOREIGN bondholders, it Is reported, in
tend to bring suit against Jay Gould and
Russell Sage for S., ,O00, 600 They had an
agent present at recent examinations be-
fore the Pacific Investigating Committee,
and from admissions by witnesses con-
firmation was obtained of suspicious of
| irregularities by which they claim they
were defrauded.
The Opera Comique, Paris, took fire dur
ing the performance on the night of the
| 25th, resulting in a terrible loss of life. 1t
was reported that sixty lives were lost,
about twenty being performers and four
fremen.
| THE French Senate has agreed to ten
| franc surtaX on sugar
THE great cotton mill of Parent & Le-
maire at ROubaix, France, was destroyed
! by fire recently.
| THE Papal Nuncio to Vienna declares
/ that a reconciliation between the Vatican
and the Italian Government is only a mat
| ter of time.
THE British chambers of commerce and
| commercial associations protest against the
new Canadian duties on iron and steel
MGR. PALLOTTE and Father Bausau were
made Cardinals at the recent Papal Con-
sistory.
THE Dublin Express, Conservative, ac-
| cuses Parneu of coercing one of his Avon
dale tenants and refusing to make any re-
| duction in rent
A RECEPTION was rendered to Lord Lans-
downe on his return home to Ottawa, Ont.
on the 27th. Many of the houses were dec
| Grated In returning thanks, Lord Lans-
downe spoke of the O'Brien campaign
against himself. The same day, at Mont
real, O'Brien addressed a large audience,
| accusing the Governor Generals adherents
of seeking his assassination.
THE burning of the Theater Connque at
| Paris proved more disastrous than as first
reported Over two hundred lives were
lost, the dead being found in heaps. The
unfortunate ballet suffered most, many of
the girls losing their lives.
SIXTY villas were burned by an incen-
diary fire near st. Petersburg, Russia, re-
Gently. The loss amounted to several mil
| lion rOubles.
A PLOT to assassinate the Sultan of Tur-
key was discovered recently. Extraordin-
airy efforts were made to conceal the dis
covery from the public. The effect of the
plot on the Sultan was visible in the terror
he exhibited.
THE striking colliers at Horner, a village
in Hainault, Belgium, on the 9th attacked
the troops who were guarding the mine
property. Three lancers were wounded
An attempt had been made to destroy the
houses of the nOn-strikers with dynamite
Four ships were reported missing and one
fouudered.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor) during
the seven days ended May e6 numbered fol
the United States 153, for Canada p; tota
of 175, against $50 the previous week and
1S1 the corresponding week of last year.
Two hundred and fifty cotton mil
owners of England have decided to ruT
their mills on half time for G .ght weeks tC
counteract the effects Of the present corner
in cotton.
a PROCESSION of the unemployed Of Dub
lin, Ireland, carrying a black flag witt
skull and cross-bones on it, was dispersed
recently by the police.
A SENSATION has been caused by the con
version to Judaism of Fraulein Blasko
witch, a member of one af the Oldest fami
! lies of the Hungarian nobility. She vii
marry a Jewish banker of Vienna named
Koenigswater